Australian conductor Simone Young has been smashing glass ceilings since she first stepped on the Sydney Opera House podium in 1985. But for musicians, "Bayreuth was the theatre where the full Ring Cycle was performed for the first time," Young says. Although Young is making history as the first woman to conduct the full Ring Cycle at Bayreuth, "the audience …
NEW YORK — The Met Opera will not start a new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in 2025 and is not sure whether it will move ahead with plans to present a staging of the tetralogy by director Richard Jones. “Das Rheingold ” is to open in London on Feb. 18 but the English opera said Tuesday it will not …
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